Just finished polishing the tunnel on my 05 RMK 151, I dont know what to do about the rear cooler.. sand and paint, or sand really fine and polish? Anybody done either? Anyways, here is what I have so far;
Polished Tunnel Pics need Rear cooler help
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Seen em polished...wanna practice on mine?
haha, i think i have enough practice now...
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ghostwhite
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It can be polished.
I will take better pics of mine tomorrow but all I did was keep polishing and polishing till it shined. took about 10 mins for the whole thing. Its got a deeper polish to it.
I used a mothers ball and mothers mag and alumium polish.
I will take better pics of mine tomorrow but all I did was keep polishing and polishing till it shined. took about 10 mins for the whole thing. Its got a deeper polish to it.
I used a mothers ball and mothers mag and alumium polish.
That looks great... I will definetaly be polishing it. I have a question; is there a relay anywhere near the tailight from the factory? Mine came with an aftermarket tail light and a relay between it and where the wire goes under the gas tank... was this just added in for the aftermarket tail light? Thanks guys.
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ghostwhite
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The relay is necessary for an led tail light. the factory light did not have a relay.
can you be specific on the relay? Where how etc?
Looks Awsome bet that took a long time. did you have to use wet sandpaper?
There are 3 wires that come out from under the gas tank at the rear, they run in to a relay that is located under the rear gas rack then to the aftermarket LED tail light. Doesn't look stock, and I dont think it is.
Polishing did take a very long time, but I did not have to wet sand anything, other than where the decals were.
Polishing did take a very long time, but I did not have to wet sand anything, other than where the decals were.
I did mine once over but it didnt come out like that.what did you do to make it come out that clear? I dont know on the wiring as mine has the stock tail light.is yours not working
I had to go over the entire thing twice, also I used a buffing wheel on a angle grinder, after it was polished I used Mothers wax on it... RPM is good for polishing aluminum. I am going back to a stock type tail light, so am going to use stock wiring.... if I can figure out how it was.
do you have a manual that should show you how
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ghostwhite
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The stock wiring is three wires into the connector in my picture then to the stock tail. In order to run the LED tail on a CFI to make the current constant(I believe?) You probably don't have the connector anymore unfortunately. But just hard wire with a good solder job and you'll be fine
heres mine
here is what i ended up doing with mine..
i really wanted to powder coat it, but i dont want to go buy a carbide drill bit and mess around with it and chance breaking something...cause i ALWAYS do, lol..
just used super high heat resistive paint (for BBQs)...up to 1200 degrees..i used it before on my zx9r motor and it looks great still and never a problem..
or polish it for hours, lol
pretty good match to the bedliner color
here is what i ended up doing with mine..
i really wanted to powder coat it, but i dont want to go buy a carbide drill bit and mess around with it and chance breaking something...cause i ALWAYS do, lol..
just used super high heat resistive paint (for BBQs)...up to 1200 degrees..i used it before on my zx9r motor and it looks great still and never a problem..
or polish it for hours, lol
pretty good match to the bedliner color
That looks good painted, I will try to give it a polish, if that doesnt work I will paint it.
I ran my sled without a tail light, I might not even put one back on... if I just block off the wires to the tail light would that give me any problems? (Other than not having a tail light, lol.)
I ran my sled without a tail light, I might not even put one back on... if I just block off the wires to the tail light would that give me any problems? (Other than not having a tail light, lol.)
Sled looks awesome, I didn,t know you could polish the heat exchanger, that will look great. The relay was added to make the led work, Polaris uses a switched negative to operate the brakes so a relay is needed. Before you run with no tail lite I would move the relay to under the seat or somewhere and I heard of a guy running the wires under the tunnel in some sort of loom.
thanks, yah now I have the wires come from under the gas tank and into the storage compartment under the seat so I have room for the relay in there, will probably mount the led light just under the seat. i will post pics when finished.
